2.11BSD - TUHS

26 Dec 1998

I know you've all been on the edge of your seats waiting for this, but...

I finally got my PDP-11/73 working, using a wyse terminal instead of my PC
-- for some reason neither of the serial ports were sending on the PC (but
then again, I boughtthe motherboard in an alley in korea three years
ago)...  Anyway, it boots up with RSTS/E version 9, which is OK in it's
own little way, I guess, but I'd rather be running Unix on it.  

So where can I download the binaries for 2.11BSD?

	-- Erin Corliss

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...
 I know you've all been on the edge of your seats
waiting for this, but...

I finally got my PDP-11/73 working, using a wyse terminal instead of my PC
-- for some reason neither of the serial ports were sending on the PC (but
then again, I boughtthe motherboard in an alley in korea three years
ago)... 
There are at least two different standards for the ribbon-cable-to-D-sub
adapters, and of course it's guaranteed that you'll use the wront type :-).

...
   Anyway, it boots up with RSTS/E version 9, which is
OK in it's
 own little way, I guess, but I'd rather be running Unix on it.  
 So where can I download the binaries for 2.11BSD? 
Easiest way is for you to tell us what sort of load media you can use and
have someone write an install tape for you.  Do you have a TK50 or other tape
drive on the system?

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Subject: Re: 2.11BSD (but no src license)
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In article by Greg Lehey:
...
  On Friday, 25 December 1998 at 23:09:48 -0800, Erin W.
Corliss wrote:
  On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
  Do you have an Ancient UNIX license?  I
don't see you in our list.
 You'll need one before we can give you a copy of the software. 
 Nope.  I have a licensed copy of RSTS/E I could trade, though...  8^)  No,
 actually, I think I found another source for it, but thanks for the
 concern.  
 PUPS is very glad to have been able to have created the possibility of
 legally using these old versions of UNIX.  Please don't make things
 difficult by abusing somebody's cooperation.  You can get it legally;
 see http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/getlicense.html for more details.

 Greg 
What Greg says is true: we can't give you access to any UNIX source
code unless you have a UNIX source license from SCO. However....
I should ask Dion at SCO if we could distribute binary-only distributions
of 2.x BSD without a license. After all, freely distributable binary-only
distributions for v5, v6, v7 and Venix (System III-ish) exist.

Just a thought, but for now you do need a source license.

Cheers,
	Warren